Peterborough Cathedral
Properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew and also known as Saint Peter's Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Peterborough. Dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the famous West Front, the cathedral was founded in the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Ramsey Abbey
Remains of a former Benedictine abbey. Once an island in the Fens, this charming former gatehouse is all that remains of the oldest English and once great Benedictine abbey at Ramsey. An ornately carved exterior with a glorious oriel window, is all that survives of the gatehouse
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Denver Sluice
Located south west of Downham Market, the Denver Complex is probably the largest combination of sluices anywhere in the country. From the 1600’s when the original Denver sluice was constructed, its purpose has been to protect the people of the fens from flooding.
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Pinchbeck Pumping Station Museum
The museum is housed in the 1833 steam-powered pumping station building. View the information boards and artefacts which tell the history of drainage in this area from Roman times to the present day. The Pinchbeck Engine is a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire.
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Prickwillow Pumping Station
The mainstay of the collection is the six large diesel pumping engines, all British-built and of early to mid twentieth century design, rescued from Fenland pumping stations. The Mirrlees engine is the original engine installed at Prickwillow in 1924, the remainder have been rescued from other sites.
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Stretham Pumping Station
The last survivor in the southern Fenland of over 100 steam-powered pumping stations applied to fen drainage in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is also the largest and most complete example of any of these, and one of the earliest, having been erected in 1831.
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Ouse Valley Way
Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Milton K, Norfolk, Northants. A source-to-sea route on one of England’s longest rivers,the River Great Ouse
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Angles Way
Norfolk, Suffolk The Way was devised by the RA, and together with the Peddars Way, Norfolk Coast Path and Weavers' Way, forms the 227-mile Around Norfolk Walk.
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Fen Rivers Way
The Fen Rivers Way is a walk between Cambridge and Kings Lynn following the Rivers Cam and Great Ouse
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